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Colum McCann

Colum McCann

Colum McCann

Do What is Most Difficult

Novelist Colum McCann writes in a cupboard by choice. Watch the charming Irishman discuss with great playfulness how writers are constantly faced with improbable but necessary tasks: “It’s like trying to solve a problem in complex mathematics.”

Colum McCann

What Ulysses Did to Me

”The blood that moves through me right now is my great grandfathers blood, but the reason I know him, is because I read Ulysses” says Irish writer Colum McCann in this interview about James Joyce’s modernist novel.

Taiye Selasi & Colum McCann

We are all Multi-Local

Meet the distinguished writers Taiye Selasi and Colum McCann in this inspiring talk about finding a way to be yourself, a "citizen of elsewhere", with more than one home and an international identity based on many local experiences.